Before You Begin
You must be assigned the Media Backup rights profile. You are in the global zone.
zfs send -r | -R filesystem@snap for major backups
For available methods, including sending the backup to a remote server, see Sending and Receiving ZFS Data in Managing ZFS File Systems in Oracle Solaris 11.2 .
/usr/sbin/tar cT for small backups
For details on the –T option to the tar command, see the tar(1) man page.
A script that calls the zfs or tar backup commands